Wednesday, April 30, 2014

View From The Roller Coaster



I see people dancing on roofs
To the birds’ symphony
Picking at their oranges
To escape the monotony
Hush up the cacophony
Blot out the misery

Running away and towards to
The ever-constant fete
This machine’s unpredictable
Although the path’s so straight
And we must dictate
Each choice roughly translates

Kissing in rising water and fighting
On the dry, shrinking land
Crashing cars for excitement
Playing dodge ball with sardine cans
Because this is the fall of man
No return to where it began

Mutually killing to share the pain
Of what they mean to the other
Drowning themselves in the paint
To leave this world in color
A thousand rainbowed lovers
Realizing the ride is over




Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Holywood




If another letter tumbles off
It won’t make a difference
The bloods and crips
Still humping away
Smut films being made
10 for a dollar (cheapest shit, anymore)
Old men in old clothes
Crawling under overpasses to expire
The forever summer and variable rains
Talks of revolution, secession
And secret volcanoes
Morons begetting morons
No more brainiacs to help me out
Just my people
The millennial hipsters
Wannabe beings
Fizzling out
I’m no better

Oh, if you could see it now
You’d laugh and get drunk, again

Monday, April 14, 2014

Wallflower



Out there, in the open
You feel so medium-sized
Not worthy of the bricks
Not worthy of the paper
Just a semi-solid, malleable
Better-off-leaving kind of character
But you stay, blending in a corner
Believing it could swallow you up
Make you part of it; what a concoction
Sadly, mixtures are for boozers
Painters, lovers in the night
And the like
You’re none of these things
You’re a whiny poet
What good can you do?
You give nothing to
A rehab clinic
The puckered art world
A woman, melting in your bed
You’re just a wallflower
Beaten the shit out of
By yourself
For being as such

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Statistic



Don’t worry your pretty head
With the light shining through
The drain collects everything
And carries it to the other side of town
Gets purified, pushed back
Then you drink yourself

They were nursing their
Dipsomania, cannabis enthusiasm
In the closeted living room
So noticing wasn’t even
In the big picture of things
And the neighbors might’ve heard
But then again, they never hear

Your lover was your friend
Locked in himself, on fire
But he swallowed the key
And poured the gasoline
He’s cooking like the barbeque
But what matters is
He feels something
And that’s a situation
Even he’s clueless about

And like the approximate
85 other Americans
Doing the same blasted thing
Every day
You’ve become a statistic, too